Board members

Members of the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board

Sir Christopher Kelly KCB, RGSB Chair

Sir Christopher Kelly is Chair of the Kings Fund. He is also the Senior Independent Director on the Co-op Group board, a trustee of the Canal and River Trust and on the board of the Office for Budget Responsibility. He was previously chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the NSPCC and the Financial Ombudsman Service. Between 1970 and 2001, he was a civil servant, working in HM Treasury, the Department of Social Security and latterly the Department of Health, where he was permanent secretary.

Professor David Forrest, Professor of Economics, University of Liverpool

David Forrest is an applied economist and econometrician based in the University of Liverpool Management School and also Honorary Professor in Macau Polytechnic Institute. His research agenda covers two fields, sports economics and the economics of gambling. He has published a substantial body of research in each of these areas and sits on the Editorial Boards of both the Journal of Sports Economics and International Gambling Studies. In recent years, he has written about, and advised governments, law enforcement and sports federations about, issues related to match-fixing.

Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Honorary Chair, University of Liverpool

Professor Sir Ian Gilmore is an honorary consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and holds an honorary chair at the University of Liverpool. After training in Cambridge, London and the USA, he moved to Liverpool as a consultant physician and gastroenterologist with particular interest in liver disease in 1980. He is a past-president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the British Society of Gastroenterology, and is chairman of Liverpool Health Partners, created to promote an Academic Health Science System in the city. He chairs the UK Alcohol Health Alliance, is President of Alcohol Concern and is a member of the Climate and Health Council. He is a deputy Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside.

Dr Hermine Graham is a consultant clinical psychologist and clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham and in the NHS; she works in the NHS in community mental health services and in private practice in the area of addictions and mental health. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and has published a substantial body of research in the area of the relationship between addictive behaviours and mental health problems and regarding the evaluation and implementation of effective treatment approaches. She has served on expert advisory groups to develop ‘dual diagnosis’ national policy guidance and has substantial national and international experience of consultancy and training.

Russell Hoyle, RB Hoyle Limited

Russell Hoyle runs an independent business consultancy advising small and medium sized companies on their strategic development opportunities. He is a Director of Business in Sport and Leisure, a membership organisation that is a strategic body representing the Sport, Leisure, Hospitality and Tourism sectors. In addition, he is a Special Partner with Vitruvian Partners LLP, a mid-market private equity firm and has interests in Social Housing. Until mid-2010, he was Chairman of Inspired Gaming Group plc, an AIM listed technology provider to the land-based gaming market.

Richard Ives, Education Consultant

Richard Ives has extensive experience of prevention and education work with children and young people, especially in relation to illegal drugs and alcohol. He runs the company, educari, which has produced educational resources on, for example, drug and substance abuse. Richard has carried out an evaluation of the GambleAware website.

Rachel Lampard MBE, The Methodist Church

Rachel was previously a Commissioner on the Gambling Commission Board for nine years. She provides a unique combination of an understanding of both the policy and regulatory approach adopted by the Commission, as well as the history and evolution of the arrangements for providing research, education and treatment for problem gambling. Rachel led the original review of the effectiveness of existing voluntary arrangements for research, education and treatment requested by the Department of Culture Media and Sport in 2007. More recently, she headed up the Commission's review of social responsibility measures within the Licence Conditions and Code of Practice. Rachel has also recently been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List with an MBE for services to gambling regulation.

Dr Simon Tanner, Public Health Specialist

Dr Simon Tanner has held a number of Consultant and Director of Public Health posts in the South of England. In 2007, he was appointed to the role of Regional Director of Public Health for London and Health Advisor to the Mayor, where he took responsibility for health inequalities strategy and the health service response to the London Olympics. He retired from this post in March 2013.

Dr Heather Wardle, Social Researcher

Dr Heather Wardle is an experienced social researcher who has specialised in the design and delivery of some of Britain’s most complex social surveys. With over ten years experience in health and wellbeing research, she is a substantive expert in gambling studies and completed her PhD in sociology focusing female gambling behaviour. She is particularly interested in methodology, for example how big data can be used for policy purposes. She has a keen interest in spatial analysis and has worked with leading geographers to explore the spatial relationship between gambling venues and local areas. She is currently collaborating with Geofutures, leading their Gambling & Place Research Hub exploring local area vulnerability to gambling-related harm. Heather was previously the lead for gambling research at the National Centre for Social Research and was Project Director of the British Gambling Prevalence Survey.